Vittoria Cafolla
Vittoria’s latest play is with Kabosh, exploring the experiences of female combatants in the FARC & the Troubles in NI. This was produced in late Spring 2021 online and returns to the Lyric theatre & tours Ireland in June 2022. In December 2020 she was selected to be part of the Abbey Theatre’s Engine Room […]
Rachel Briscoe
Rachel Briscoe is co-founder lead artist for digital story studio Fast Familiar. Fast Familiar make artworks which are participatory, playful and political. We are an award-winning interdisciplinary collaboration comprising expertise in theatre, game design, digital technology and neuroscience and psychology. For us, art is a space to explore questions which are too complex for daily […]
Melanie Hering
Melanie Hering is a London based drama and creative writing facilitator. She loves making art with people and hearing their stories. Generating frameworks that have the flexibility to be adapted to the individual needs and wishes of the people she works with is central to her practice. She likes building things collaboratively with curiosity, and […]
Toria Banks
Toria Banks is a disabled writer, director and dramaturg. In 2018, she co-founded Hera to make inclusive music theatre by gender-minoritised artists, with Linda Hirst and Simone Ibbett-Brown. In 2021 she made ‘We Ask These Questions of Everybody’ with composer Amble Skuse: a digital opera commissioned by Sound Festival and made remotely by an all-disabled team […]
Laurie Motherwell
Laurie Motherwell is a playwright from Glasgow. During his residency at Cove Park he will be working on his play I Very very Love Caramel Bar, written as part of his New Playwright’s Award with Playwright’s Studio, Scotland. This is a personal work that explores how transnational relationships between middle aged men and younger women […]
Youth Arts Bursary Programme 2022
Pamela Carter
Pamela Carter is a writer for performance, director and dramaturg based in London. She has been making work in theatre, opera, dance, and the visual arts for over twenty years. During her residency at Cove Park she will work on two plays: about the digital promise of ever-lasting life; and about colonialism and interracial relationships set […]
Ruth Paton
Ruth Paton is a set, costume and puppet designer working in opera and with a particular focus on participatory practice and engagement. She is Associate Artist at Blind Summit Theatre and Lead Education Artist for the English National Opera, Garsington Opera and the Royal Opera House. Ruth holds a lectureship in theatre design at the […]
The Play Park
Cove Park announces The Play Park
Michael John O'Neill
Michael John O’Neill is a producer, writer and cultural programmer based in Scotland. As a writer, Michael’s first play Akedah won the Bruntwood Prize Original New Voice Award 2019 and premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2023. His second play This is Paradise was presented at Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2021 and 2022 and won the […]
Robbie Thomson
Robbie Thomson is a Glasgow-based artist and theatre maker who works with kinetic sculpture, music, lighting design and technology. His latest work, XFRMR (developed from Ecstatic Arc presented at the Edinburgh Festival at Summerhall in 2013), had recent performances including Sonica, London; EXIT Festival at Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil, Paris; […]